Simulating Small-Scale Agricultural Adaptation Decisions in Response to Drought Risk: An Empirical Agent-Based Model for Semi-Arid Kenya

In Eastern Africa, increasing climate variability and changing socioeconomic conditions are exacerbating the frequency and intensity of drought disasters. Droughts pose a severe threat to food security in this region, which is characterized by a large dependency on smallholder rain-fed agriculture a...

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Main Authors: Marthe Wens, Ted I. E. Veldkamp, Moses Mwangi, J. Michael Johnson, Ralph Lasage, Toon Haer, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Water
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frwa.2020.00015/full